but we're looking at changes off of head start and poor moms off wic. while military personnel accounts are protected from sequestration, it would appear that an important service supporting these families are not protected. my question is what will be the effect on sequestration for military families? the quality of life for those loved ones who support our fighters? for example, is an accurate that cuts to a child of elements centers will directly help the children of servicemen and women? finally, what do you believe will be the impact on retaining our best and brightest members of the military? from this fiscal mess, it means that their jobs are more difficult and it undermines the well-being of their families, especially their children. how do we keep our best and brightest from a gentleman? >> congresswoman, we have a little over 19,000 civilian marines whose salaries come from appropriated funds. a large percentage of those, if not all of our people who deal with child development centers to train our children, our mental health providers, the on